Citations:Fibber McGee's closet

English citations of Fibber McGee's closet

• 1948, Henry F Gauss, Mechanical Engineering, page 811:

  Or will we go on reaching into Fibber McGee's closet for hard-earned skills each time we are up against a moment of critical decision?

• 1966 July, Popular Mechanics, volume 126, number 1, page 174:

  Actually, the thing — in all cars — is misnamed; in practice it rarely holds gloves, instead is a sort of automotive Fibber McGee's closet.

• 1990, Richard Rhodes, A hole in the world: an American boyhood, page 48:

  Where in all this Fibber McGee's closet of wartime memory is Lois?

• 1994, Janet Dailey, Silver Wings, Santiago Blue, page 151:

  Marty stopped beside the opened footlocker, and saw the rumpled clothes and underwear tumbling over the sides. "It's worse than Fibber McGee's closet. ...."

• 2001, Shelley Johnson, The complete sea kayaker's handbook, page 216:

  Or, you may have created the kayaking equivalent of Fibber McGee's closet.

• 2002, Bill Tammeus, A gift of meaning, page 68:

  But once you are here, standing on this surfeit of land, this piled-up, stacked-up, smashed-up Fibber McGee's closet of rock and soil

• 2005, Jim Morris, The Devil's Secret Name, page 30:

  It disappeared into the maw, the Fibber McGee's closet, of his so-called filing system — apparently forever.

• 2007, Pat Legako with Cyndi Gribble, Deliverance: Rescuing God's People: Developing and Operating the Ministry, page 67:

  In a spiritual sense, Fibber McGee's closet is the place where we stuff all the things that we should have forgiven.